Re: "Read my lips: no more merges" - aka Linux 2.6.14-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 15, 2005, 14:39 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509150737030.26803@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <43290486.5020301@zytor.com>

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> 
> Generally you want to honour $PAGER if it is defined.

We do. But it falls back to "less" by default.

I realize that UNIX tradition is to fall back to "more", but let's face it, that's just old and broken. There's "tradition" and there's "being stupid and unable to change".

Of course, if RPM supports the notion of "suggest", maybe we can make "less" a suggestion rather than a requirement, since you can still use git without it as long as you set PAGER.

		Linus